Tag: Get Creative

Helen is choosing a new cover photo each week for the Secret Garden Facebook Group

Ruth

First up was Ruth’s. Helen particularly enjoyed how the butterfly blocks were laid out with the butterfly mobile.

Tracey

Tracey’s photo is this weeks cover image, showing her mini gardens in her own sunny garden. This has certainly been warming us Brit’s up.

Participation Grows

Seven days into the Secret Garden CAL

31 Days into the Secret Garden CAL

Even pets are getting in on the action

DonnaCollette

Have your pets been helping you with your blocks? Please do share pics with us

Mary

What do we do with all our ends?

What to do with all these ends?

Here are just a few suggestions that have appeared on the group;

Helen from Swansea shared a link to maRRose – Colourful Crochet & Crafts for a yarn bowl that has been sculpted using all the ends that she had saved up from her crochet projects. I love this idea and I hope to do something like this with my ends. If you’ve done something similar why not share your photo’s with us.

Our Helen (Rainbow Valley) saves all her ends and gives them to a couple of her students. Why? Because they breed canaries and they use the ends for making nests. That’s such a sweet idea.

I have heard from one of my students in the past would leave her ends hanging from a bush in her garden for the sparrows to use when they are nesting. She would also supply them with the fur that her dogs & cats had shed.

Creative Changes

There are now more than 500 participants making the Secret Garden CAL and naturally not everyone is using the same yarn brands, so there are some beautiful colour and texture differences.

SharonTrinaEsther

But the most creative change has been from Tracey who has chosen to do the crab stitch round of the big flower in one of the colours from the centre.

Helen’s Secret Garden Prize Draw

Rainbow Valley CrochetSecret Garden CAL

This blanket is a unique design by Helen Free using Stylecraft Special DK for a Crochet Along. There are six blocks, each made in the four different colour ways giving a total of 24 blocks. The finished size is about 140cm x 95cm.

There is no minimum donation. For every £5 you donate, you will receive one entry into the prize draw. Please make sure you leave your full name and email address to enter.

The draw will be held on April 28th when the Crochet Along is over. The winner will be published on Facebook and notified by email.

This week Helen released the second block pattern, it’s a dragonfly, my second favourite animal. My first being the butterfly and I’ve made loads of those already. I haven’t been able to take part much this week as I have been working on a commission, so I am sharing lots of feedback from the Facebook group instead.

Block 1 – Highlights

The mini butterflies block was released a fortnight ago and progress has been great. With now more than 450 participants across Facebook, Ravelry, Instagram and email.

Helen and the team have been excited and enthralled by the photographs and feedback.

The community that is evolving on Facebook is a lovely space to share progress, and everyone has been supportive of each other. With participants from 11 different time zones there is pretty much always someone online to talk to. The group have been very supportive with the more experienced crocheter’s offering help, hints, tips and support to those who are just starting out in the crochet community.

Block 2 was released at the beginning of the week and many have already begun creating it. But before I share any of the progress on the new block I wanted to give you a look back over some of the other mini butterflies along with feedback from members of the Facebook group.

JohnelleBarbara

Just when Barbara was all but ready to give up, everyone all pulled together and helped her along, and what a great job she made on her first butterfly block.

Well done for sticking at it.

Holly

And Barbara isn’t the only one to have found the new skills and techniques a little challenging. Holly also made good progress and finished her block.

There have been a large number of new crocheter’s to join us on the journey, but I am so pleased that they have persevered. I am also very proud of all those who got together and helped out by pointing people in the right direction towards the support photographs and videos.